Courses that Count for WGS Credit

All WGS courses and the following courses are approved for WGS concentration credit and the WGS Secondary Field. Of the courses listed below, those offered at Harvard schools outside of FAS (e.g. Harvard Divinity School, the Graduate School of Design, etc.), require a FAS concentration credit petition in order to count towards a WGS concentration or secondary field. The FAS courses listed below do not require a petition. 

If you would like to petition to receive concentration credit for a course that is not listed below, please submit a copy of the syllabus with a completed petition to the WGS Director of Undergraduate Studies. 

 

Spring 2024

AFRAMER 130 Y - Mobility, Power and Politics (Agbiboa)

ANTHRO 1906 - Care in Critical Times (Wright)

ECON 2330 - History of Human Capital (Katz)

EXPOS 20 230 - Inventing the Queer Past (Pietras)

FOLKMYTH 172 - Quilts and Quiltmaking (Lufkin)

GENED 1022 - Vision and Justice: The Art of Race and American Citizenship (Lewis)

GENED 1113 - Race, Gender, and Performance (Bernstein)

GERMAN 117 - Voices of Diversity in German Literature & Culture (Sütterlin)

GOV 94 OA - Inequality and American Democracy (Skocpol)

GOV 1029 - Feminist Political Thought (Forrester) Counts for WGS theory foundation

HDS 2050 / RELIGION 1256 Gender and Judaism in Modern America (Braude)

HISTSCI 2510 - Feminist Science Studies (Richardson)

HIST-LIT 93AA - Queer Archives (Kaminsky) Counts for WGS history foundation

PHIL 162- Sex, Love, and Friendship (Schouten)

JAPNLIT 162 - Girl Culture, Media, and Japan (Yoda)

PHIL 186 - Feminism in Arts and Sciences (Capdevila-Werning)

PSY 1009 - Psychology of Women (Noll)

RELIGION 1060 / HDS 3760. Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary (Clooney)

SOCIOL 1058 - Sex, Gender, Sexuality (Viterna) Counts for WGS theory foundation

WGH 207 - Advanced Topics in Women, Gender and Health (Katz-Wise)

WGH 210 - Women, Gender and Health: Critical Issues in Mental Health (Boskey)

WGH 220 - Sexuality and Public Health (Austin)

WGH 250 - Embodying Gender: Public Health, Biology and the Body Politic (Krieger)

AFVS 149H - Ghost Image (Helmar)

AFVS 198F - Feminist Approaches to Film (tba)

FRENCH 245 - Against Difference: Monique Wittig's Trojan Horse Writing and Theory (Kim, Annabel) Counts for WGS theory foundation

FRENCH 86 - Mother Dearest: French and Francophone Writers Confront the Maternal

DPI 527M - Reproductive Rights, Politics, and Policy (Mazzola)

ENGLISH 124SG - Sex, Gender, and Shakespeare (Niles)

ENGLISH 180VW - Two Visionary Women: Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and Company (Watson)

ENGLISH 90T - Toxic Rhetoric (Dimick)

GOV 94WP - Women in Politics (Saha)

HIST 15U - The Means of Reproduction: Health, Bodies, Technologies (Suri)

MUSIC 230RS - Feminist Music Theory (DuGuay)

SCRB 135 - Reproductive Biology (McKinley)

 

 

Fall 2023

AFRAMER 120X - African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance (Bernstein)

DPI 376 - Queer Nation: LGBTQ Protest, Politics, and Policy in the United States (McCarthy)

ECON 980 X - Economics of Work and Family : Junior Seminar (Goldin)

EMR 1010 - Topics in Latinx Studies: Imagining Latinidad (Mendoza-Mori)

EMR 133 - Power, Knowlede, Identity: Critical Approaches to Race and Ethnicity (Craig)

ENGLISH 90AH / TDM 172K Asian American Theater and Performance (Kim, Ju Yon)

EXPOS 20 232 - Inventing the Queer Past (Pietras)

FOLKMYTH 176 - Tattoos: Histories and Practices (Lufkin)

FRSEMR 64 U - Stories of Gender and Justice (Thornber)

GERMAN 291 / AAAS 205 Questions of Theory (Suetterlin, Sommer)

GOV 94 OF - Law and Politics in Multicultural Democracies (Liviatan)

HDS 2139 - Trauma and Resilience: Empowering Those Who Care for Others (Giles)

HDS 2692 Sex, Gender, and Sexuality I (Dunning)

HEB 1330 - Primate Social Behaviors (Surbeck)

HIST 4485 - Race and Gender: Landscape Architecture as Practice, Profession, and Discipline (Way)

SBS 246 - Maternal and Child Health: Programs and Policies (Tiemeier)

SOCIOL 1165 - Online Dating and the Transformation of Intimacy (Narr)

WGH 201 - Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice (Janiak)

WGH 220 - Sexuality and Public Health (Austin)

WGH 230 - The Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People (Reisner)

FRENCH 86 - Mother Dearest: French and Francophone Writers Confront the Maternal (Kim, Annabel)

AAAS 326, HDS 3263, RELIGION 1807 - Black Religion and Sexuality (Greene-Hayes)

BETH 718 - Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Bioethics (Sirvent)

ENGLISH CGF - Genre Fiction Workshop: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Horror, The Ghost Story, The New Weird - (Mukherjee)

EXPOS 20 233 - Gender & Mental Health (Quigley)

EXPOS 20 234 - Gender & Mental Health (Quigley)

HDS 2066 - Religion and Reproductive Politics in the United States (tba)

HDS 2628 - Mourning, Melancholia, and Mysticism: Seminar (Hollywood)

HIST 15Y - Race, Gender, and the Law Through the Archive (Eatmon)

HIST-LIT 90GH - Global Transgender Histories (Riegel)

HIST-LIT 90GK - Performing Latinidad: Race, Sex, and Excess in Contemporary U.S. Culture (Sanchez-Cruz)

MUSIC 195 RS - Music of Women Creators (Shreffler)

PSY 1845 - Stigma, Discrimination, and Health (Hatzenbuehler)

PSY 2452R - Laboratory Research on the Biopsychosocial Effects of Stigma (Hatzenbuehler)

PSY 980T - Eating Disorders (Shingleton)

SBS 506 - An Intro to History, Politics, & Public Health: Theories of Disease Distr. & Health Inequities (Krieger)

SPANSH 118 - Women Writers in Greater Mexico (Martinez)

SPANSH 216 - The Dangers of Femininity: Queering Latin American Literature, Film, Music, Art (Martinez)